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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. OceanBase vs. OrigoDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	7.64
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

en.oceanbase.com

origodb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Circonus LLC.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Robert Friberg et al

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2005

2017

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

4.3.0, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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